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To participate in the Grandmothers’ Football World Cup in South Africa in 2025, players from the Périgord Noir football club (Calès, Dordogne) posed naked in a calendar.
“At a certain age, we are no longer visible in society: we have been forgotten.” Based on this observation, the club’s players, aged between fifty and seventy, decided to give a good kick to preconceived ideas by setting out to conquer two fields: football and nudity. Our colleagues from TF1 devote a report to them.
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Their first ambition is football, which they have been training for since 2023. A simple hobby at first, the activity has become an invigorating passion, which has earned them the attention – and funding – of the Football Federation. In one year, the club has grown. Eight in number in 2023, these players are now 32. With a dream: to participate in the Grandmothers’ World Cup, which will take place in Africa in 2025.
“After all, our bodies are still beautiful”
In order to finance their trip next April, these players have decided to reclaim a second terrain: their own bodies. All – or almost – took on the challenge of posing naked in a calendar intended to raise funds. For the joke, for the challenge… and for the symbol. “After all, our bodies are always beautiful,” explains the treasurer, who specifies: “Until now, I think we have sold more or less 300.”
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Along the way, these passionate players have reconquered another lost territory, that of the prime age of life: “These are childhood sensations that I am rediscovering,” enthuses Joëlle, 70 years old. “You know, parents call you, say: ‘Come on, let’s go!’, and then you continue a little longer. That’s exactly it.”
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